Project Manager

Job description

Take Ownership. Build Confidence. Deliver What Matters.

Some projects need more than governance and reporting. They need a leader who can step into complexity, bring clarity, build stakeholder confidence, and drive delivery forward.

We're looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead a high-profile, business-critical technology programme where success depends on strong leadership, supplier management, and delivery excellence. You'll be joining at a pivotal stage, taking ownership of a project with significant visibility and helping shape its successful outcome.
This is an opportunity to make a real impact, working alongside senior stakeholders, technical teams, and external partners in a secure and fast-paced environment.

Role is remote with some travel to client site.

You do need to be eligible for SC Clearance for this role.

What You'll Be Doing:

• From day one, you'll take the lead in assessing project health, understanding delivery risks, and creating a clear path to success.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a complex IT projects on infrastructure and applications.
• Build confidence with senior stakeholders through clear communication and strong delivery leadership.
• Manage third-party suppliers and partners, ensuring commitments, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
• Drive project governance, reporting, financial oversight, and delivery planning.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
• Coordinate multiple teams and suppliers to keep delivery aligned and on track.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven track record delivering medium to large-scale IT projects from initiation through to completion.
• Strong supplier, vendor, and partner management experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across business, technical, and external organisations.
• Experience managing project governance, RAID logs, budgets, reporting, and delivery plans.
• Strong risk, issue, dependency, and change management expertise.
• Oracle experience/knowledge.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience delivering projects within UK Government or Defence environments.
• Knowledge of MOD, Defence Digital, or Government governance frameworks.
• Experience operating within secure or highly regulated environments.
• Exposure to cloud, infrastructure, workplace technology, service transition, or digital transformation programmes.
• Experience working across complex multi-supplier ecosystems.

Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Remote
Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC Clearance.
Internal Recruiter: Jane
Salary: To 65K
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days,4 x life Insurance, matched contributory pension to 6%, 3% flex benefit, single private medical cover, £5400.00 car allowance.

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Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment.

We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We havepartnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us knowwhen completingyour application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.